If the new Heat +FX has a different clock, it should have different sound quality from the older versions. People pay thousands of dollars for a Grimm Audio Master Clock to improve the sound of their converters. Does the new Heat +FX have improved AD/DA sound quality?
I’ve actually been interested in buying a high-end AD converter lately, but that would mean I’d need to buy a nice DA converter as well. I was thinking that maybe the new Heat +FX could function as a decent DA converter.
Low bar
I’ve pissed myself there as well.
Honest question: how is the preset switching? Do effect tails persist?
The tails do not persist as far as I can discern, either between presets or when you hit bypass. I tested by doing just a preset with rev and del and then switched to the init preset. There might be that option but I’ve literally only had 30 minutes with it while cooking dinner.
I assume that when you jump between patches that both have delay, one will be immediately replaced by the other. So there’s no chance for a tail. Just like if you jump between patterns on the digitone, the delay and reverb jump to the new settings of that pattern.
It’s immediate tho? There’s no clicks n pops?
I don’t hear pops like an artifact but the presets are wildly different to show the range of sounds, and it makes it hard to judge. That said, I don’t hear anything that sounds like a blatant pop or click.
is the drive/filter/eq settings are part of the preset? I mean the Drive/Level/Mix/Frequency etc. knobs are saved with the preset? and if they do, what happens when you change presets? there’s a param jump I assume?
it’s saved, and you can have optional catch/jump mode for pot ‘pick-up’
The way this is done is all super swish. Seamless.
Using an sp404 at the same time…. Worlds apart!
How come the mighty Roland are years behind Elektrons UI encoder implementation!?
The way they adjust to the speed you’re dialling in is so intuitive.
Not upgrading the SPs CTRLs to endless push encoders is perhaps it’s biggest oversight… but also keeps it in its own domain.
SP Cassette FX + HFX Warbling is the wobbliest.
this might be old news for heat users but the notch filter is quite tight for removing an errant frequency in the lows, another digital filter/parametric eq fx block could really help with chiselling out our bass departments. any tips/approaches here?
I’d like something really scientific for brutal colour free frequency removal/enhancement, then let the analog circuits do their thing.
damn just when I thought I could resist:
I find this Heat plus FX a total rip off. I have made compression style FX on the heat with the envelope follower, also flange style FX and tremolo. I feel like the price is unfair and digital FX could have been done with better programming.
Has anyone seen what these folks are doing with the original machinedrum
These guys have added several FX algorithms, they are not getting paid and its a 20 year old machine… Elektron dumped one of the best machines they made to make new gear, unlike synthstrom deluge or Arturia microfreak who keep updating five year old gear because they are good programmers.
I’m a fanboy of elektron by the way, I’ve just gone off their mk2/3 rehash model money making instead of programming the MK1 versions…
ofcourse the people that have an MK2 model are disappointed and the ones that complain and say that this is a rip off.
I wouldnt go so far as to say that, and in this thread it has already been established that the hardware is different in the new model to enable the fx and this is not merely software.
that said, it would have been nice if elektron gave the possibility to upgrade your MK2 like they are doing for the Push (ableton) now. Yet, I don’t think you would save a lot of money here, you can just as well sell your MK2 and buy a new AHFX.
Do you think that those digital fx and the other functionality, all of which can be p-locked, LFO’d and otherwise modulated, are really not worth a $200 premium over the standard Heat Mk2?
can it? how?
for example by sending cc values from DN midi track
That’s what I mean, yes. Assuming we are all already invested in the Elektron ecosystem… even a single spare Digi-box midi track could do crazy stuff (just watch @Voltagectrlr for examples… and I don’t know if those are even using external CC’s or not! But I wouldn’t doubt it.)
